23 of the best · Warsaw, Poland
The Royal Castle and the UNESCO-listed Old Town, Łazienki and Wilanów, the Palace of Culture and Highline Warsaw, the Holy Cross Church where Chopin’s heart rests, and POLIN and the memorials of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Our 23 favourites, listed A–Z · Updated October 2026
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Three of our favourites from this list, vetted by people who know and love Warsaw.
On Castle Square
The royal residence on Castle Square, rebuilt after the war, and in winter the setting of the city’s great Christmas tree.
Plac Zamkowy 4, WarsawExplore View on map
The king’s summer residence
The summer residence of the last king of Poland: the Palace on the Isle, the court theatre, the peacocks, and Chopin concerts in summer.
Agrykola 1, WarsawExplore View on map
A thousand years
The museum of a thousand years of Polish Jewish history, on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto, facing the Ghetto Heroes Monument.
Anielewicza 6, WarsawExplore View on map
In-depth stories behind the list.
The back story
Warsaw is a city rebuilt: the UNESCO-listed Old Town rose again after the Second World War, along with the Royal Castle, the Royal Route and Łazienki. Today they stand beside the Palace of Culture, the Varso Tower and the new Museum of Modern Art.
Castle, square and palaces.
UNESCO World Heritage
The heart of the rebuilt Old Town, with the Mermaid statue and the Museum of Warsaw.
On Plac Defilad
The tower in the middle of the city, with theatres, museums, cinemas and a terrace on the 30th floor.
Plac Defilad 1, WarsawExplore View on map
The king’s summer residence
The summer residence of the last king of Poland: the Palace on the Isle, the court theatre, the peacocks, and Chopin concerts in summer.
Agrykola 1, WarsawExplore View on map
On Castle Square
The royal residence on Castle Square, rebuilt after the war, and in winter the setting of the city’s great Christmas tree.
Plac Zamkowy 4, WarsawExplore View on map
King Jan III’s palace
The palace of King Jan III Sobieski and its garden, with 200-year-old oaks, a Chinese gazebo and Mount Bacchus.
Stanisława Kostki Potockiego 10/16, WarsawExplore View on map
POLIN, the ghetto and 1944.
Okopowa 49/51
The historic Jewish cemetery on Okopowa, with its carved matzevot.
Okopowa 49/51, WarsawExplore View on map
Tłomackie 3/5
The institute and museum in the building of the pre-war Main Judaic Library, beside the site of the Great Synagogue.
Tłomackie 3/5, WarsawExplore View on map
Before POLIN
The monument to the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in the square in front of POLIN.
Survived the war
The only Warsaw synagogue to survive the Holocaust, built in the Neo-Romanesque style.
Dzielna 24/26
The museum on the site of Pawiak, the wartime prison, in the former ghetto area.
Dzielna 24/26, WarsawExplore View on map
A thousand years
The museum of a thousand years of Polish Jewish history, on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto, facing the Ghetto Heroes Monument.
Anielewicza 6, WarsawExplore View on map
Stawki Street
The memorial at the place from which, from 22 July 1942, Jews were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp.
A surviving fragment
A surviving fragment of the Warsaw Ghetto wall, in a courtyard at Sienna 55.
The 1944 Rising
The museum of the 1944 Warsaw Rising, in a former tram power station in Wola.
Grzybowska 79, WarsawExplore View on map
Churches, gardens and the zoo.
Chopin’s heart
The basilica on Krakowskie Przedmieście, where an urn holding Chopin’s heart is set into a pillar.
Krakowskie Przedmieście 3, WarsawExplore View on map
Below the Old Town
The fountain park below the Old Town, with water, light and music shows in season.
Since the 18th century
Warsaw’s historic Catholic cemetery, with its avenues of tombs and monuments.
Powązkowska 14, WarsawExplore View on map
Organ festival in summer
Warsaw’s cathedral in the Old Town, home of the International Organ Festival from July to September.
Świętojańska 8, WarsawExplore View on map
Above the library
One of the largest roof gardens in Europe, with views of the Vistula, above the University Library in Powiśle.
Dobra 56/66, WarsawExplore View on map
The Zookeeper’s Wife
The zoo in Praga, and the villa of its director Jan Żabiński and his wife Antonina, who hid Jewish people there during the war.
Ratuszowa 1/3, WarsawExplore View on map
Towers, science and history.
On the river
The science centre and planetarium on the Vistula embankment.
Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie 20, WarsawExplore View on map
The highest in the EU
The highest observation deck in the European Union, on the 53rd floor of the Varso Tower, at about 230 metres.
Chmielna 69, WarsawExplore View on map
Permanent exhibition 2027
The Polish History Museum in the 19th-century Warsaw Citadel: temporary exhibitions and a roof terrace now, and the permanent exhibition from 2027.
Gwardii 1, WarsawExplore View on map
